Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-11

body at the Orange street entrance, in
front OF which the hearse drew up. The
casket was carried in the church up Hen
Ty street aisle and placed on q dais in
front OF the pulpit. The pail was drawn
back ard the sliding top of the Casket
removed, exposing to view the
face of the dead The guard Of
honor took up position and then
the regiment filed into the church in
Gouole file front, marched up one aisle,
passed in front of the cOfIiu, breaking
ranks and passing one file on each side,
and then down the other aisle to tee
street. Meanwhile, General HOrati0
King played, as the body was borne IL the
church, Beethoven's burial march. 1t is
the same march that was played
at the great composers funeral
in 1923 There will be music in the
| church during the whole Of the time the
body lays there. The regiment then re-
formed and marched to the arm1ry with
the drum corps leading. When they
drew up in front OF the house the color
bearers faced the door and the body was
received with dropped ensigns.
THE ANNOUNCEMENT PREMATURE.
NEW YORK, M6rcn 10 j. .. 4. Ward,
the sculptor, said last night that the re
port that he he'd been commissioned to
make q statue Of Henry Ward Bzecher
was premature. Mr. Ward added that It
had been intimated to him that a sum of
money had been devoted by Mr. Ssge TO
erect to the greet preacher 9 statue, but
he could not possibly verify or deny it.
TWO CHURCHES ADOPT THE RESOLUTIONS.
CHICAGO, Ill, March 10 At the
prayer meeting at the Leevitt Street Con
eregatiOnal church last night, Rev. Thee
dOTe Z. PrudOD, pastor, who both spoke
RnC TOted for the BeeCher resolutions OF
coincidence in the ministers meeting Mon
day, suggested that the church ought not
&c rest silent under the statements so
publicly made, and after several speeches
OF unqualified approval of his remarks,
the church, by unanimous vote, re-
quested him to send a telegram Of con
dolenca 10 Mrs. Beecher.
a. missionary meeting held last night
in Union Para Congregational church,
the pastor, Rev. DR. Noble, said he re-
GREETED from the bottom of his heart the
recent action Of the Congregational minis-
tiers about the sending OF letters Of sym
patty o Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher He
was very sorry he was not present in per
son, for had he been there letters would
have gone at least from the minority.
He deprecated the preachers lack Of good
sense, and said that although ON theO-
logical points many of them altogether
differed from Mr.. Beecher, still all must
admit they had lost the foremost pulpIt
orator in America, and one Of the sblest
of men. DR.. Mobiles remarks were ap-
plauded, and it was unanimously voted
that the congregation Of UGion Park
church send their sincerest sympathy to
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher in her attic
ton.
BERCHER's WILL.
NEW YORK, March I0-The will Of Mr..
Beecher was read this afternoon in the
presence Of the fam ~ 1t is
probable that it will not be fled
for probate as one of its
main provisions authorizes the members
of the family to settle among themselves
the division OF what there is left. The chief
feature is that Mrs. Beecher is first
provided for. The contents of the will
will not be known unless the will is pro-
bated, as it is the wish of the family that
no publication of its contents should be